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In a new interview, the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman admits to having completed the writing and recording of her band’s hit in just 20 minutes at the secret recording space in San Francisco.

Oct 19, 2020
AceShowbiz – Stevie Nicks wrote TikTok sensation hit “Dreams” in funk legend Sly Stone’s secret recording space at a studio in San Francisco, California.
The singer reveals she and her Fleetwood Mac bandmates were finishing off demos for their 1977 album “Rumors” when she got a melody stuck in her head and tried to find a quiet place where she could complete the new tune.
“We were up at the Record Plant in San Francisco and were almost done with the 12 demos,” Nicks tells Yahoo Entertainment. “Everybody was working on something else in the main studio, and I had this idea. I was kind of wandering around the studio, looking for somewhere where I could curl up with my Fender Rhodes (guitar) and my lyrics and a little cassette tape recorder.”
“This guy who I didn’t even know said, ‘Are you looking for a place to go and play?’ I said, ‘I am. I have a song in my head and I want to record it.’ And he said, ‘OK, now, you can never tell anybody, but I have a place where you can go,’ and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, a magic room! Oh my God, I’ll never tell anybody.’ ”

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Stevie was led to a “full-on studio that none of us ever knew existed in this building,” adding, “It’s a big studio with a sunken circular shape, actually like a lighthouse, like a circle, and there’s keyboards all around, a bunch of keyboards that went down this tunnel kind of thing. And then over to the side was this big half-moon circular bed with all black and red velvet. It sounds a little garish, but it was actually beautiful. And I said, ‘What is this?’ And he said, ‘This is Sly Stone’s studio.’ ”
Nicks sat on the bed and had “Dreams” written and recorded in just 20 minutes.
“I walked out back down the hallway and I walked into Fleetwood Mac’s studio, and I said, ‘Listen up, everybody. I think I have something that you want to hear.’ I played them a little recording of ‘Dreams’ and we recorded that song that night.”
The track has become a hit all over again after Fleetwood Mac fan Nathan Apodaca’s viral video, in which he skateboards while miming along to the song, became a TikTok sensation, leading to a string of copycat performances, including one from Mick Fleetwood himself.

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The Fleetwood Mac frontman talks about her feud with her former bandmate and lover Lindsey Buckingham as she’s asked about any possible reunion with him.
Oct 15, 2020
AceShowbiz – Stevie Nicks has no intention of ever performing with her ex-lover and former Fleetwood Mac bandmate Lindsey Buckingham again.
Lindsey was booted from the band two years ago when he made comments at Stevie’s expense when Fleetwood Mac were honoured as the MusiCares Person of the Year in 2018.
Although she got in touch with him when he suffered a heart attack last year (19), the “Edge of Seventeen” hitmaker says their musical relationship is at an end.
Asked if she’d ever appear on stage again in an interview with The Guardian she says, “probably never,” before going on to say that she hasn’t regarded any of the group as close pals since the mid-1970s.

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She explains that when asked, “‘Do you get along?’ We’d go: ‘Not really.’ They’d say: ‘Are you friends?’ and we’d go: ‘Not really.’ ‘Do you see each other when you’re not on tour?’ ‘Er, no.’ It has been like that since 1976.”
Stevie also accused Lindsey of being “jealous” of the success of her 1981 album “Bella Donna” as he left a copy she gifted him on the studio floor and refused to listen to it. She went on to claim all of her male bandmates and producers “hated that kind of confidence in a woman.”
Her comments come after drummer Mick Fleetwood said he and his ex-bandmate were on good terms but admitted the guitarist’s return would be complicated.
“All I can say is really openly is that Lindsey Buckingham and the work he has done with the band is never going to go away and we have a functioning band with the changes that we made (sic),” he explained. “You know time heals and it was lovely to be able to talk with him.”
Although Stevie replied “no” when asked by The Guardian if she’d spoken to Lindsey since his departure, the 72-year-old singer did tell the Los Angeles Times she had sent her best wishes after his heart attack.

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